This post is part of the series on preparing a new SD card to install a new Raspberry Pi operating system; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.
With the SD Memory Card Formatter downloaded, we can now install it.
Extract and launch the application from the downloaded zip file:
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This post is part of the series on Implementing SmartList Builder from eOne Solutions.
Of all of the ISV products I have used with Microsoft Dynamics GP, SmartList Builder is the one I have worked with the longest, and is the one I like the most (looking back I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to do a series like this).
It is easy to use, flexible and far better at creating new SmartLists than the in-built SmartList Designer product which Micro created when they passed SmartList Builder back to eOne Solutions.
If you like SmartLists, then I would encourage you to take a look at SmartList Builder; it does take a somewhat technical user to create and maintain SmartLists through it, but they are easy to create and much more flexible than those possible through SmartList Designer. The hardest job is sometimes discovering how the data hangs together.
There are resources such as the GP Tables section of Victoria Yudin’s website or my azurecurve|Microsoft Dynamics GP Table Reference which you can use to find the tables you need.
This post is part of the series on preparing a new SD card to install a new Raspberry Pi operating system; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.
I am using a large capacity micro-SD card for install the new OS and it is recommended to use the SD Memory Card Formatter from the SD Association.
You can download the tool from here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the blue For Windows button.
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This post is part of the series on Implementing SmartList Builder from eOne Solutions.
The final element to readying SmartList Builder for use is to configure security so that users without the POWERUSER* role can access it. While this step isn’t absolutely necessary, I would encourage people not to over use the POWERUSER* role.
A better approach would be to create a Super User role instead. Both this role and standard user roles will need to have access to the SmartList Builder windows granting.
This is easy to do, as SmartList Builder ships with some default security tasks and a role:
Assign this role to the relevant user or assign the tasks to existing roles and user will, next time they login, be able to access the SmartList Builder window.
This series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi. In this series, I am going to prepare a new SD card for installing the Raspberry Pi operating system.
I’d heard one or two people say they’d had issues with installing a new OS for Raspberry Pi, but a little searching and I found a simple tool which allows you to easily create a bootable SD card, which I am going to step through in this series.
This post is part of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi series.
I’ve posted that my main reason for buying a Raspberry Pi was to use as a Pi-hole for blokcing adverts.
Having found that a very good use, I’ve found myself wondering what else I could use a Raspberry Pi for? They’re almost throwaway in terms of cost (£59.99 on Amazon UK) and there is a lot of software available for them.
One use I have is to piggyback on the Pi-hole by installing a VPN; I travel a lot for work and this would allow me to VPN into the Raspberry Pi when I am away and send all network travel through the Pi-hole. Ad free browsing even when away from home (I have an Android mobile so could use a VPN on the phone as well).
One potential use is as an HTPC (Home Theatre PC). A few years ago there was a raft of HTPCs available, but they seem to have pretty much disappeared (or become horrendously high price).
I will be doing posts in future as I experiment with my Raspberry Pi. Or a Pi anyway as I have a second one sat on my desk waiting to be put to some use.
This post is part of the series on using the Pi-hole; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.
I’ve been a Windows user ever since I first started using a PC back in 1995; my exposure to other operating systems has been very limited so I was slightly tentative about buying a Raspberry Pi and setting up Pi-hole. I have to say that the process has been very smooth and the Pi-hole is an effective ad blocker.
The Pi-hole admin interface is very easy to use and the few items which need to be performed at command line are nice and straightforward. If I’d known how easy it was going to be and how effective the Pi-hole is ad stopped adverts, I’d have built one much earlier than I did.
This post is part of the series on Implementing SmartList Builder from eOne Solutions.
If you’re testing SmartList Builder, you can use it in the Famrikam Sample company without entering a registration key. However, yo use it on a normal company, even a test one, you will need to input the key.
To do this, log into Microsoft Dynamics GP as a user with the POWERUSER* role and open the SmartList Builder Register window () and enter the key in the Registration Key field:
Click Save to sdave the key and close the window.
This post is part of the series on using the Pi-hole; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.
While the Pi-hole blocklists will automatically update, the Pi-hole itself does not. However, updating the Pi-hole is a simple job. Log onto your Pi-hole, most likely using SSH, and type the following command:
pihole -up
The update of Pi-hole will take a few minutes to run through; progress will be shown and a confirmation message shown when finished.
The Pi-hole admin interface will show when a new updateis available for the Pi-hole; it is recommended to keep up-to-date with Pi-hole to ensure the best security.
This post is part of the series on Implementing SmartList Builder from eOne Solutions.
SmartList Builder is downloaded direct from the eOne Solutions website as a zip file.
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